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Really, I hadmatters on my mind than the fact that Bax had his hands inside Dovie’s shirt The weasely little TA had backed down and started babbling as soon as I had cornered him in the empty lecture hall I don’t know if it was the fact I had picked hi doll, or if it was Bax’s threatening, silent presence, but the guy had started babbling and blubbering immediately and had rushed to adrade on purpose I think if I had pushed any harder, the little slimeball would have peed hi was far more valuable to me than his embarrassment would’ve been

I let hi to transfer classes, or better yet, transfer schools, and he didn’t argue I told him to stay the hell away from Brysen It was then he toldher so furiously, and why he had been dead set on ruining her se themselves around in my mind Yes, Brysen had turned him dohen he asked her out and she hadn’t been very tactful about it, but then he insisted that she had proceeded to hassle hi text uy like him never had a chance with her, that she posted nasty stuff all over his Facebook and just generallyto hiirl and he was her target He called her a bully without actually using the word So he struck back the only way he kne, by taking it out on her schoolwork

The proble out was I kne busy Brysen was and I had torn apart her old coe, and the only e-mail she used was the one all students had access to, which was registered through the university The correspondence I had been able to retrieve wasstuff related to school and projects There had been nothing alar, but his reaction and his i as really going on So with her life behind the curtains as well I didn’t like any of it

I looked up as Bax ive hiet the chance becauseI didn’t want to answer it when I saas Nassir, but I did anyways Business was business after all

“What’s up?”

“I need you to get your ass to the District” He sounded furious

“Uh, why?” I motioned to Bax to hold on for a second He leaned on the opposite fender and stuck a smoke in his mouth

“Because soive us a e”

I felt irl who got around andat it She and Bax ay back, well before she startedaround the sheets He hadn’t kept in touch with her since he and Dovie beca-time

“What was the e?”

Nassir swore and I heard soround He barked at Chuck to find out as taking the doctor so long, and then came back on the line

“That this is just the beginning”

“Fuck Did she have any idea who it was?”

“She can barely talk It looks like someone stomped on her face All I could ular, and when she went to answer the door, it wasn’t hi around She’s a mess”

No one deserved to suffer like that, even if they had a job that was risky

“I thought you atching the girls orked for you, Nassir How did this happen?”

“Don’t even start thinking you can question how I ean eye on the girls If they take new clients, if they get bizarre requests, if they think soht put them at risk, or the operation at risk Like I said, Roxie said this was a routine date, there were no red flags Whoever this guy is, he kno places like the District work He knew she wouldn’t see a new client alone”

I swore again “Who was the original date with?”

Nassir went quiet and I heard hi, then a sharp fe him he was a bastard That had to be Honor, no one else had the balls to talk to Nassir like that